Download or read book Gullah Branches West African Roots written by Ronald Daise and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gullah People and Their African Heritage written by William S. Pollitzer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins and way of life of the Gullahs of South Carolina and Georgia, details the skills and customs they brought with them from Africa, and discusses the threats to their survival as a distinctive culture
Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by Wilbur Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.
Download or read book Gullah Culture 1670 To 1950 written by David McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a mystery to me how the Gullah culture has been so overlooked by the American educational system, considering their "story represents a crucial component of local, regional, and national history." Because they spent their lives in relative isolation from other cultures and whites, the Gullah were able to preserve the roots of their African traditions, beliefs, and languages. Over time, varying groups blended together to form a new culture and language called Gullah. No other European or African group can claim such an achievement.
Download or read book Roots Reeds written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Water Brought Us written by Muriel Miller Branch and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of the Gullah people who forged out of the oppressive circumstances of slavery a unique African-American culture.
Download or read book Call Me Gullah written by R. H. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call Me Gullah presents a vivid description of a unique group within the African American culture. The Gullah living on Sea Coast Islands bordering South Carolina and Georgia have the purest bloodline of African slaves ever brought to America in wooden ships. The author suggests that some 75% of Blacks living in the United States remain unaware of the one of a kind group. This entertaining book tracks the life of a member from this community, also known as Geechees. It has been called fascinating by some who observe as these people are integrated into the larger society of mankind. Sons of former slaves have left a dialect, culture, and cuisine that has a direct link to their West African heritage. This work shines the spotlight on the Brown family of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. You will meet them and see why they are proud of their indigenous heritage.
Download or read book Call Me Gullah written by R. H. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call Me Gullah presents a vivid description of a unique group within the African American culture. The Gullah living on Sea Coast Islands bordering South Carolina and Georgia have the purest bloodline of African slaves ever brought to America in wooden ships. The author suggests that some 75% of Blacks living in the United States remain unaware of the one of a kind group. This entertaining book tracks the life of a member from this community, also known as Geechees. It has been called fascinating by some who observe as these people are integrated into the larger society of mankind. Sons of former slaves have left a dialect, culture, and cuisine that has a direct link to their West African heritage. This work shines the spotlight on the Brown family of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. You will meet them and see why they are proud of their indigenous heritage.
Download or read book African Roots written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by Wilbur Cross and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the rich culture of the Gullah people - a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South. Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of the Gullah people, African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the American South. This book, written for the general public, chronicles the arrival of enslaved West Africans to the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia; the melding of their African cultures, which created distinct creole language, cuisine, traditions, and arts; and the establishment of the Penn School, dedicated to education and support of the Gullah freedmen following the Civil War. Original author Wilbur Cross, writing in 2008, describes the ongoing Gullah story: the preservation of the culture sheltered in a rural setting, the continued influence of the Penn School (now called the Penn Center) in preserving and documenting the Gullah Geechee cultures. Today, more than 300,000 Gullah people live in the remote areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuski, and Cumberland, their way of life endangered by overdevelopment in an increasingly popular tourist destination. For the second edition of this popular book, Eric Crawford, Gullah Geechee scholar and director of the Honors Program at Benedict College, has updated the text with new information and a fresh perspective on the Gullah Geechee culture"--
Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by and published by Blair. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wha E Mean Fa be Gullah written by Ronald Daise and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brookgreen Gardens takes pride in promoting the Gullah culture of Brookgreen, Laurel Hill, The Oaks, and Springfield Plantations, on which the National Historic Landmark of Brookgreen Gardens rests. The isolation of vast numbers of Africans on numerous coastal and barrier islands that were not connected to the mainland by bridges until the mid-1950s resulted in the unique Gullah culture that endures today. It bears close ties with West African heritage in spirituality, dietary practices, language, crafts, customs, beliefs, and speech ways.
Download or read book Gullah written by Reed Smith and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gullah Geechee written by Queen Quet Marquetta Goodwine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the history series entitled "Gullah/Geechee: Africa's Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora." These pages will take you on a journey to the numerous islands that make up Beaufort County, SC. It tells the Gullah/Geechee story from the time of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the current human rights movement of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.gullahgeecheenation.com).
Download or read book WEBE Gullah Geechee written by Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WEBE Gullah/Geechee Cultural Capital & Collaboration Anthology is the second anthology compiled by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com). This historic work details interdisciplinary research within the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Ethnography, anthropology, science, history, and literary contributions and analysis all come to life within these pages. This book not only provides the history of the evolution of the Gullah/Geechee culture, but also focuses on the issues of leveraging cultural capital in the current human rights movement of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. This anthology tells the living story of the Gullah/Geechee. Disya da who webe!
Download or read book Gullah Geechee written by Queen Quet Marquetta Goodwine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of the history series entitled "Gullah/Geechee: Africa's Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora." This is the only book on the Gullah/Geechee history of St. Helena Island which is in the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.gullahgeecheenation.com) that was ever published. The pages take you on a journey from the arrival of Africans to the Sea Islands to the efforts to continue to keep this unique culture alive.
Download or read book Making Gullah written by Melissa L. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PROLOGUE: The Misremembered Past -- CHAPTER 1. From Wild Savages to Beloved Primitives: Gullah Folk Take Center Stage -- CHAPTER 2. The 1920s and 1930s Voodoo Craze: African Survivals in American Popular Culture and the Ivory Tower -- CHAPTER 3. Hunting Survivals: W. Robert Moore, Lydia Parrish, and Lorenzo D. Turner Discover Gullah Folk on Sapelo Island -- CHAPTER 4. Drums and Shadows: The Federal Writers' Project, Sapelo Islanders, and the Specter of African Superstitions on Georgia's Coast -- CHAPTER 5. Reworking Roots: Black Women Writers, the Sapelo Interviews in Drums and Shadows, and the Making of a New Gullah Folk -- CHAPTER 6. Gone but Not Forgotten: Sapelo's Vanishing Folk and the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor -- EPILOGUE: From African Survivals to the Fight for Survival -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
